The deciphering of the Latin riddle known as the Prophecy of Melkin which gives precise directions to Insula Avallonis or the Island of Avalon of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea fame. Until recently Avalon was thought to exist at Glastonbury, but is now clearly shown in Melkin’s Geometry to point to Burgh Island in Devon. This is where the body of Joseph of Arimathea was laid to rest with the Holy Graal.

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those feet written by Michael Goldsworthy is an explanation that brings together
the Grail story traditions with the Glastonbury legends of King Arthur and
Joseph of Arimathea.

In 1191
the bones of King Arthur were supposedly dug up at Glastonbury Abbey. It was
rumoured that a cross was found with him which conveniently stated that King
Arthur, (i.e the bones just unearthed), were found‘in Avalon’, confirming to those that needed
to be persuaded, that Avalon was in fact Glastonbury. The reason the monks at
Glastonbury committed a fraud such as this was because of the Grail legends concerning
the Matiere de Bretagne coming from France. These were in a way competing with the
established tradition at Glastonbury which associated King Arthur with Joseph
of Arimathea. The news of this Grail literature was now prevalent in England
and Glastonbury needed an association with a saint to attract Pilgrims. It is
due to Melkin’s prophecy that Joseph had always been associated with
Glastonbury since it related information concerning ‘virginem adorandam’which was assumed by Glastonbury monks to
relate to the church built in wattle at Glastonbury that was dedicated to the
virgin Mary. This was also assumed by William of Malmesbury when he mentioned
the same church. This part of Melkin’s
riddle is infact providing accurate on site details of the position of the
burial place of Joseph of Arimatheaat
Burgh Island. It was due to this misinterpretation of Melkin’s prophecy that Glastonbury
presently rests its case as to being the Location of Avalon and the hallowed
ground where Joseph lays. If Joseph were there he would have already been
discovered.

Nobody was
too sure where the island of Avalon was, but everybody since the writings of
Geoffrey of Monmouth knew that King Arthur was also buried in Avalon. This
actually indicates that Geoffrey did source material written by Melkin that
remained in Britain as Melkin is responsible for renaming the island from Ictis
to Avalon.

Joseph of
Arimathea, by Melkin’s prophecy also indicated was buried in Avalon. Neither William of Malmesbury nor Geoffrey of
Monmouth associated Glastonbury with the Island of Avalon at the time they
wrote. This was a later corruption by monks and the sole purpose of producing
the fraudulent unearthed cross was to establish Glastonbury as Avalon. If
Glastonbury could only be established as Avalon by the unearthing of King
Arthur, then it must follow the Joseph of Arimathea was also buried within the
Abbey grounds if all were convinced that Glastonbury was Avalon. To unearth
Joseph of Arimathea, however, would prove difficult as it was known that he was
buried with the holy Grail. Since the monks were not apprised of what the holy
Grail consisted of, it was easier to fabricate the unearthing of King Arthur
with a cross attesting to the fact that where he was unearthed was indeed
Glastonbury and therefore it must be the island of Avalon. The reason Joseph of
Arimathea needed to be associated with Glastonbury is because the monks needed
funding to rebuild their Abbey after the fire.

Prior to
the fire of 1184, there existed a prophecy written by a monk called Melkin. In
this prophecy, (once it is decoded), Melkin supplies very pertinent information
in geometric instructions, that gives precise directions to an island in Devon.
This island is Burgh island in Devon. Melkin states that the body of Joseph of
Arimathea lies in the southern angle of a bifurcated line. Once Melkin's code
is deciphered, it clearly portrays that Avebury is the point on the St.
Michael’s ley line, which in his puzzle, he refers to as a ‘sperula’or sphere,
meaning a stone circle. This is the point within the Avebury stone circle
complex which, at 13°, if one scribe's a line through Montacute to Burgh island
(which Melkin calls the island of Avalon), it is exactly one hundred and Four
nautical miles, the exact number that Melkin gives. We should not forget that
Father William good deposited this clue in the English college at Rome. Someone
or some organisation had tried to eliminate this information from ‘Maihew's
Trophea’ to prevent the Joseph line being found but luckily this clue was
preseved in Stillingfleet’s private collection and thus acts as a confirmation
that the line is Genuine. It also seems that several marker churches that
identified the genuine Avalon were also destroyed to prevent this information
coming into the public arena.

The location of Avalon has always
been thought to exist at Glastonbury but with a recent study of some of the
oldest text and the uncovering of the fraud concerning King Arthur carried out
by the monks at Glastonbury, it is evident that Avalon is in Devon . The
references that Melkin gives are part of a geometric riddle that once solved,
points straight to the island in Devon which is obviously fits Diodorus’s
description as Ictis.

This is in
fact named in the Grail stories as the island of Sarras named after Judah’s
eldest son Zarah, who broke the womb first. His name has the same pronunciation
as Sarra in French and his descendants came to the south-west and were the
primordial miners of tin on southern Dartmoor who brought their tin to this
island to be sold. This is the reason that in the Grail stories, the island is
called Sarras and to which the holy Grail was brought. It is to this island
that after the crucifixion of Jesus, when his body was taken down from the
cross by his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, it was then conveyed to a box filled
with Cedar oil so that it might preserve his corpse. This box or coffin known
as the Grail Ark was then conveyed with Joseph and several others from
Jerusalem to the island of Sarras, which Joseph knew well, having visited many
times previously on his mercantile trips with Jesus. This island had been known
about in the Greek chronicles because Pytheas a Greek explorer had visited the
island on his expedition to find amber which they did not realise was the
sometime by product of tin and copper smelting. The island was kept secret over
many years since Pytheas’ visit, until Joseph of Arimathea visited the island
with Jesus on one of his trips abroad gathering metals.

It was to
this island previously known as Ictis that Joseph of Arimathea chose to convey
the Grail ark and place Jesus in an old tin vault that had been shut down or
made redundant due to the Roman invasion. For about 1000 years, the island
called Burgh island had been the place on the coast where all the tin miners up
on southern Dartmoor had brought their tin to be stored in the vault. This
transpired so that visiting traders could take away tin at any time and the
island acted as a trading post. It is for this reason that Diodorous refers to
it as an ‘emporium’. It becomes clear now the reason that Joseph of Arimathea
knew the island very well. Strabo even relates the story behind the cache of
tin ingots found at the head of the Erm.

The gospels
relate that Jesus was laid to rest in a hewed out tomb belonging to Joseph of
Arimathea and the rumours still persisted as eyewitnesses had seen the doubled
over white shroud that covered his body as he lay in the Grail ark. One wonders
if the Gospel accounts of the burial of Jesus are just the echoes of the
misconstrued eyewitness accounts that existed in Jerusalem just after the
resurrection. This set of events aslo explains why the flower imprints were
found on the Turin shroud. This is fully explained in detail in a book called
‘And did those feet’, written by Michael Goldsworthy as new theory as to how
the Grail stories, the Arthurian legend at Glastonbury and the gospels
interlink and provide evidence of the whereabouts of the body of Jesus.

Melkin, who
actually wrote the original book of the Grail, which ended up over in France
and gave rise to the many Arthurian Grail romances now is understood to be the
same person who provided the rumours of Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury. So
now we have a tomb containing King Arthur, Joseph of Arimathea and Jesus that
was last shut when Melkin moved to France in around 600AD, sometime after the
Saxon invasion. However the Templars, once they have been disbanded in the
Middle Ages, were also privy to this island location and they knew what was
buried within. It was here on Christmas Day in 1307 that they decided, (after
King Philip and the Pope had disbanded their organisation), to relocate their
treasure that they had managed to recuperate and ammased it into three treasure
ships that left La Rochelle on 13Tth October 1307.

While
depositing their treasure in the tomb they removed the Shroud of Jesus that had
been submerged in the Cedar oil for 600 years while covering his body. It is
inside this vault that the image of Jesus on the Turin Shroud was formed while
draped over the body of Jesus in Cedar oil. The evaporated Cedar oil has left a
caramel like substance all over the Turin Shroud, but the image itself was
formed by the detritus left behind by anaerobic bacteria.

Only 50 years
later, one of the Templars that died with Jack de Molay near Notre Dame in
Paris, had a granddaughter that produced the Turin Shroud. This is not
coincidence and answers the many questions of why there is no provenance for
the Shroud of Turin prior to 1354. The Shroud had existed within the tin vault
until the Templars arrive and remove it. The song which became a Christmas
Carol; ‘I saw three ships come sailing in on Christmas Day in the morning’ is
really the echo of the Templars bringing their treasure to the island of Avalon
in Devon. However, this song had always been associated in Cornish tradition to
the visit of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea. It was the Templars, however, that
marked out all the churches dedicated to St. Michael that lie along the St.
Michael Ley line. Oddly enough, it is the other St. Michael churches that we
used as markers, that confirm that the island of Avalon is indeed Burgh island
in Devon

It
is this line that Melkin refers to, which, when bifurcated within the Avebury
stones at 13° and a line is scribed for 104 nautical miles it lands on this
same island. Unequivocably Melkin understands the connection between the island
of Ictis used by Joseph of Arimathea and clearly calls it the island of Avalon.
Firstly, it is known by the Greeks as Ictis, secondly, as the island of Sarras
by the French Grail writers and thirdly, as the island of Avalon named as such
by Melkin originally and made to appear as pertaining to Glastonbury tor by
some devious medieval monks . It is even referred to as the island of Avaron by
some of the Grail writers.

The unofficial
anthem written by William Blake called Jerusalem starts with the line ‘And did
those feet’. This is the title of the book written by Michael Goldsworthy ,
which conveys the same story that Jesus visited England while accompanying his
father, Joseph of Arimathea to Britain. The book called ‘And did those
feet’clearly deciphers Melkin’s prophecy, so that it becomes apparent that
Melkin knew where the island of Avalon was and what existed within it. To fully
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